best option for WMV encoding on a Mac

[Ben Waggoner]

Nope, it won’t run in Crossover, since Crossover hasn’t implemented the wmvencod.dll.

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[Rich Rubasch]

Ben sort of clarifies why a true PC workstation is almost a necessity in any complete production studio. Parallels etc do a great job of running most of the PC apps but don’t really have a complete implementation of the OS.

YOu might pay $300+ for a decent encoder on the Mac, but for about $300-$400 more you can have a perfectly capable PC to do your encoding chores with the Windows encoder which is free.

Plus you have another DVD burning station, a place to test cross compatibility on DVD or CD projects, test a new website you built on a PC and a ton more.

Hmmm…no brainer?

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Ben Waggoner]

Well, I wouldn’t go THAT far. A couple of points:

1. Telestream will be closing the gap, with our help. And it’s not that huge a gap right now, especially for the majority of users who don’t touch registry keys. If anything, Flip4Mac is easier to use for most consumers – you need registry keys to turn on B-frames on Windows today, for example.

2. Running Windows on a Mac running Boot Camp is just the same as running on any other Windows machine. Parallels will give the same quality, but not the same performance single it only supports a single core.

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[Andy Edwards]

Rich,

Thanks for the MPEG Streamclip idea. I was having issues with FLIP4Mac today and was browsing the cow and read your recipe. Downloaded MPSC and saved my files over the network to a PC. Downloaded the WM Encoder and created my files. It is a little more work, but the files looked great.

Thanks!!!!!

Andy Edwards

[Chris Borjis]

Ben, just wondering when VC-1 will be an option for the current crop of windows media encoders out there….mac or pc.

I thought that flip4mac pro did decent wmv hd encoding, if I work purely from digibeta or hdcam uncompressed material, flip4mac ($179 version) I’ll be good to go right?

[Craig Seeman]

The current version of Flip4Mac as well as Episode support encoding VC-1 on the Mac.

[Ben Waggoner]

Just in case that there is any confusion:

Windows Media Video 9==VC-1

Windows Media Video 9 is VC-1 Simple or Main Profile
Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile is VC-1 Advanced Profile

You can think of “WMV9” as our brand for our implementation of the VC-1 codec. WMV9 is trademarked by us, while VC-1 is not.

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My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Chris Borjis]

Can you create the same type of VC-1 that is compliant for professional HD-DVD or Blu-Ray authoring?

[Ben Waggoner]

Yes. Sonic will be the first to market with CineVision PSE:

https://www.sonic.com/products/Professional/CineVisionpse/quicklook.aspx

We’re also looking to license the core technology to a wide variety of other companies.

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[James St clair]

this link
https://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm
has this info, a PLAYER only is free

To export WMV with their presets the version flip4mac costs $49

To export using dual pass their version costs $179

What are you talking about a free version that exports to WHM?? The link you gave has no free version that exports video!!

please correct your post.

JSC